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Light Queen 10:17
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Head Nickel 07:33
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3.
McGeist 17:09
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4.
No Illusion 06:38
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5.
The Good Neighbor 05:29
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Review from Touching Extremes May 9, 2010 - Massimo Ricci

"John Butcher on tenor and soprano sax, Gerry Hemingway – besides drums and percussion – also using voice and sampler. The album was released in 2008, and it’s excellent. In “Light Queen”, the dialogue is distinguished by an abundance of breathing room, revealing an enthusiastic aspiration to the reciprocal understanding of what the partner is expressing in order to complement the creative splinters in the best possible way. Butcher remains in the percussive side of the palette for the largest portion of the improvisation which, in general, is soft and sharp, incisively logical throughout. “Head Nickel” is a technically superior binge (pardon the definition), the saxophone as the vehicle for a strapping reverie, while “McGeist” explores the insides of the improvisational nucleus both in terms of timbre and dynamics, aggregating and disassembling parts in the space of thirty seconds. The musicians, here like everywhere else, seem to descend from the main genus of probing discordance (which is what renders the music quite piquant, thanks in part to Hemingway’s use of amusingly goofy electronic sounds). Successive sections are definable as sparingly tranquil, when not plain lyrical (if one can call Butcher’s multi-pitch intrepidness so). “No Illusion” is a mini-symphony of abraded metal and mulltiphonic torment that doesn’t offer a single point of orientation. The conclusive “The Good Neighbor” lets the drummer shine in no-ordinary-rhythm-if-you-pay-me uncontrollability as his actual neighbor overwhelms us with a special kind of philanthropic aggression characterized by a gazillion of all kinds of notes; it would take a week to brush them off the ground after the sparkles have ended."

This CD is still in print and available from gerryhemingway.com/auricle.html

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released November 1, 2008

Buffalo Pearl

John Butcher
tenor & soprano saxophones
Gerry Hemingway
drums, percussion, voice, sampler

1. Light Queen 10:19
2. Head Nickel 7:32
3. McGeist 17:10
4. No Illusion 6:38
5. The Good Neighbor 5:29

All works by John Butcher & Gerry Hemingway
Recorded in performance at Soundlab, in Buffalo, NY April 17, 2005


Concert presented by: Hallwalls and Resurrection Music
Allen Farmello recorded the multitrack.
Mixed, edited produced by Gerry Hemingway and John Butcher.
Mastered by Gerry Hemingway.
Performance Photo (Buffalo, NY) by Susan O’Connor www.jazzword.com
Cover Design Artwork - Gerry Hemingway

Special Thanks to HallWalls, David Kennedy, Steven
Baczkowski, Allen Farmello, and Ken Waxman for the wheels

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Auricle Records Lucerne, Switzerland

Auricle Records is the artist owned label established in 1978 by composer, percussionist, visual artist and songwriter Gerry Hemingway. For more information visit his website.

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